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H. A'. PARRAND.

CAMERA.

APPLmATIoN FILED JUNI: 1o. 1904.

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H. A. PARRAND.

CAMERA.

APPLIoA'rIoN FILED JUNE 1o, 1904-.

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' ,--niaAM A. mimi NEW YORK, N. Y.

CAMERA.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed Tune 10, 1904. Serial No. 211,894.

To LZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM A. FARRAND, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cameras, of -which the followin Jr is a specification.

This inveition has for its object to' provide a plane composed of a plurality of separate sensitized surfaces combined with means for movingr the surfaces into and out of the said plane.

This invention is primarily intended for use in the production of films to-be treated for future use in apparatus for moving pictures-such, for example, as that shown in my copending application, Serial No. 163,686,

filed June 30, 19103.

In apparatus for taking moving pictures it has been common to produce the entire impression upon each one of asuccessive series y of films, each exposure being given to the eii- Fig. 1.

tire exposed film. In my invention a plurality of sensitized surfaces-such,l for instance, as sensitized films-'are provided, a portion only of each film being exposed for each opening of the camera-shutter.l The picture-receiving plane is thus composed of a plurality of sensitized surfaces, each surface having its proportional part of the picture presented to the plane.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents m invention as applied to a camera, the view beingtaken in vertical central section. Fig. 2 is ay transverse vertical section taken in theplane of the line A A of Fig. 3 re resents, on an enlarged scale in longitudina vertical section, two endless moving films. Fig. 4 is a partial front view of the same. Fig. 5 represents in longitudinal vertical section two endless moving films having curved-faced blocks at their front ends rather thanrollers. Fig. 6 is a similar view showing two films arranged to be unwound'from one roller and wound onto another roller, the films at their front por-I 1 I rovide a plurality of separate sensitized sur aces, kwhich in the present instance are represented as films 7. y

In the form shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 a vertical series of horizontal rollers 8 are mounted in proximity to each other and in alinement. Another l series of horizontal rollers 9 are mounted at a distance back of the rollers 8, and around each pair of front and back rollers is passed one of the endless films 7. The means which I have shown for moving the different elements ofsensitized surfaces into and out of the plane exposed to the lens is as follows: The rollers@ are provided with friction-rolls 10, which engage each other. One of the rolls-in the present instance the Atop largeroller 12, whichroller 12 is in turn driven from the motor 6 by means of an end roll 9-is provided with a. roller 11, which is friotionally driven from a and the films is such that each time the shutportions of the films instead ofthe rollers 8.

In Fig. 6 I have shown the films asl being wound primarily upon rollers 17 to the rear of the rollers 8, the films passing from the roll- .ers 17 around the rollers 8 and from thence back to rollers 18. These rollers 18 may all be driven in the same direction by any suitable driving connection. (Not shown herein.)

In Fig. 7 I have shown curved-faced slats 19 in place of the rollers 8.

While I have shown this plane composed of a plurality of separate sensitized surfaces in connection with the camera, it is to be understood that this plane might be used for printing thereon successive pictures by the well-known methods of photoprintin'g. Af'- ter one print has been made the films may all be moved to bring unexposed portions into the plane for the printing thereon of another picture. 5

It will be seen that by mymvention ve accurate reproductions of scenes from lixfi may be produced with a lurality of com-- vparatively short films, it )eing clearly un- ICO derstood that each film only bears a portion of the total of each picture, all of the films being arranged to coact to *complete the Whole. After the films have been developed prints may be made therefrom for use in proq forms shown herein;4 but What I claim as my invention isl. A plurality of separate sensitized surfaces forming a continuous common plane and means for moving the surfaces into and out of said plane. i

'2. A plurality. of sensitized surfaces forming a continuous common plane' and means for simultaneously bringing predetermined portions of the surfaces mto an ex osed position for receiving an impression t ereon.

3. In a camera obscura7 the combination with a lens, of a plurality of sensitized surfaces located in the focal plane of the lens.

4. In a camera obscura, the combination withv a lens, of a plurality of sensitized surfaces and means for moving the surfaces into and out of the focal plane of the lens.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I'have signed my name, in

' `presence of two Witnesses, this 8th day of June., 1904.

. HIRAM A. FARRAND Witnesses:

' FREDRIIAYNES, 'LIDA M. EGBERT. 

